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SUMMARY:Tangible User Interfaces for Peripheral Interaction and Team Coord
 ination - Darren Edge
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CONTACT:Gareth Williams
DESCRIPTION:Much research has been carried in the last ten years in the ar
 ea of tangible user interfaces or TUIs – that is\, interfaces that use p
 hysical objects to represent and control digital information. The 'intuiti
 ve' benefit of TUIs is that they can take advantage of our natural abiliti
 es and the space around us\, but little work has been done on deconstructi
 ng and testing this belief in the real world.\n\nIn this talk I will prese
 nt the system developed as part of my PhD: a tangible user interface to su
 pport coordination within project teams. It is designed to complement the 
 existing workstation of each user\, providing a platform for users to enga
 ge with one another through fast\, frequent updates to information on the 
 periphery of their workspace and attention.\n\nThe various features of thi
 s TUI are motivated by the desire to exploit or augment particular user ab
 ilities\, and how these features provide users with interactional\, cognit
 ive and social benefits. These hypotheses are all open to evaluation\, and
  I will conclude by outlining the fieldwork programme I have set up to tes
 t and refine these hypotheses. The generalisation of these findings should
  provide a grounded understanding of the way in which the usability of TUI
 s differs from other kinds of interface\, when they should be used in pref
 erence to other kinds of interface\, and how this usability can be designe
 d for.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room\, Computer Laboratory
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